Hi Jeremy Thank you for pointing out the alt-f2 and gconf-editor.
I unchecked apps>nautilus>preferences>media_automount and reset fstab. Still have the problem. Interestingly, I cannot change any settings as it refuses to accept root password. So, Now all disks are shown, and the unchecked value is ignored. (after reboot) I tried some other things such as creating a new user (via command line), but this did not prove worthwhile. My feeling is to just abandon Debian Squeeze. I need postgresql, the compilers and webserver, and thought Debian would be just the best solution. I may just reformat the disk and do a fresh install. I did that at work on the office machine, and debian is working, but it killed the mbr by installing grub2, so now I cannot boot centos5. Question will follow in next submission. ------------------ Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein mailto:[email protected] mailto [email protected] / [email protected] www.itbms.biz --- On Mon, 12/6/10, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jeremy <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] The Debian Squeeze version 3 things. To: [email protected] Date: Monday, December 6, 2010, 12:14 PM On 10-12-06 10:24 AM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > Nick > > Thank you for the feedback. > > I discovered that solution of disabling root privileges as you described > below. Two other situations to resolve: > > On boot all other non-essential drives are auto-mounted (XP, W7, Centos > partitions). How can I just have a list of drives that I do want mounted > or none at all. > > How to make this happen? I do believe you can disable this by changing the key in apps>nautilus>preferences>media_automount (untick box). Get to this by using gconf-editor (ALT-F2 and type gconf-editor). The root login I think you can enable to show up on user list in GDM by editing /etc/gdm/gdm.schemas and remove root from the hidden user list (this is on ubuntu, so it may be the old way still in debian, editing /etc/gdm/gdm.conf). A better way would be to make a shortcut or launcher with command 'gksudo nautilus' if you want to be able to manage files as root in the GUI. Don't even have to logout then. Jeremy _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
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